5 for Friday and 1 to grow on

[lunabee34]

1. Happy birthday, executrix! You make fandom a brighter place for me and so many others. Thank you for all the years of friendship and kindness. I hope today is an excellent one.

2. I got a letter from havocthecat on the most luxurious paper. Now I get to write her back! Whoo!

3. I finally wrote another pen dry so I'm going to ink it up with Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo ink. I can't wait to see how it looks on the different papers in my stash.

4. Like the rest of you, I watched the inauguration with joy and trepidation. I feel four years of anxiety and despair slowly sloughing off.

5. I would love to be able to post pictures again. Does anybody use dreamwidth's image hosting? Would you recommend it? Pros, cons? Link to a tutorial?

6.

Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question by Nicola Diane Thompson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


All the essays included in this collection are good reads. I read it for the chapter on Ouida (which deals with the way in she anticipates the New Woman novel and focuses on Under Two Flags and Folle-Farine) but found a great deal to appreciate. I have really got to read Marie Corelli at some point; I suspect I would really enjoy her novels.



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Comments

[elfin]

I've started using DW for image hosting, and while it's not the most intuitive thing at first, it's not awful.

I've pinned a link to the upload page in my browser, so it's easy to find. The upload is pretty straightforward, just browse to or drop in the images you want to upload. After you've uploaded images you can save titles, descriptions, and alt text. After that, you can use the View Images link to see your images. This is where I get the info to post the image because you can change the size of the thumbnail image here. There's also a link to Manage Images, which is where you can edit the titles, etc, and also delete images.

If you want more details, lemme know!

[lunabee34]

Thank you for all the info. That sounds doable. I'm going to play around with it and see what I can figure out.

[independence1776]

I use Dreamwidth for image hosting, but it only allows pictures to display on Dreamwidth and Livejournal (maybe another site?), not on AO3 or elsewhere. There's also not a lot of storage space, but if you're not uploading dozens of pictures a day, it'll probably be sufficient.

[lunabee34]

Okay, cool. Thanks for the info.

I'll play around with it and see what I can figure out.

[executrix]

Aww, thank you!

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

You're welcome.

[tabaqui]

Omg. How...did i not know that DW had image hosting?
I just keep putting stuff on my LJ scrapbook....WOW.
:D

[lunabee34]

I hope it works you! And me! LOL I'm going to play around with it and see what I can figure out.

[tabaqui]

It was actually really easy. On the 'view images' page you can choose a code that is a thumbnail or the full image (embedded) to post, so that's neat. Definitely going to start using this!

[lunabee34]

Oh sweet. I am all in favor of easy.

[amejisuto]

I use DW for pictures and while I probably go about it the wrong way, I'm able to get pictures up. It's pretty good!

Good luck!

[lunabee34]

Okay, cool. I'm going to play around with it and see what I can figure out.

[amejisuto]

Good luck with it!

[spikedluv]

Late, but I use Imgur.

[lunabee34]

Ooooh. Is it free?

[spikedluv]

Late reply again, but yes, it's free.

[lunabee34]

Cool. Thank you!